During Mental Health Awareness week, this episode brought together a researcher (Josh Artus, The Centric Lab), educator (Mark Southgate, MOBIE), lawyer (Helen Mitcheson, Trower Hamlins), urban designer (Barry Williams, Barton Willmore) and ecologist (Ben Kite, Ecological Planning & Research) to discuss what interventions they would prioritise to tackle the significant and growing challenge of mental health in urban environments. There is no doubt that this crisis has exposed societal ineq...

Three willing guests – Tom Martin, Quatro PR, Ghislaine Halpenny, BPF and Sam Stafford Barratt David Wilson - joined us for this, the second in our series of Barton Willmore Uncut. In Conversation. Held the day after the Rt Hon Robert Jenrick’s COVID-19 Planning Update announcements, there was no better time to put ourselves in his shoes and mull over the moves made and what we might add to the cache of measures, on a more systemic, long term basis. It’s safe to say enthusiasm for t...

In this first episode of 'Barton Willmore Uncut. In Conversation'. Partners Iain Painting and Robin Shepherd are 'finding a way with' Chris Cobbold of Wessex Economics, previously the head of DTZ’s residential team and an MHCLG expert advisor, to discuss our and wider recent proclamations about the depth and significance of this crisis on the housing market. Highlights from the podcast include:Chris’s views on the depth of this economic downturn Debate on the source of a 300k housing com...